NCBI’s Guided Soundwalk offers a unique sonic experience to be led by the perceptive abilities of a team of guides with vision impairments while immersed in the intimate acoustic environment of an ‘Audio Umbrella’. The Soundwalk takes place on Dublin’s Culture Night, September 25th.
The walk involves five stages, each one is 15 mins in length and brings the audience to some of the most prominent cultural venues in Dublin city centre, where you can choose to partake in a range of exciting arts programmes for Culture Night.
The audience may reserve an umbrella for an individual or couple sharing for up to three stages of the walk. The walks will be repeated three times during Culture Night so you can choose to participate in ‘Light’, ‘Dusk’ and ‘Dark’. Unlike a typical tour, guides of the NCBI Guided Soundwalk lead in silence, operating a long cane fitted with microphone and transmitter. With this, they will create unique aural compositions broadcasting inside the domes of the Audio Umbrellas, like a mobile conductor directing a score for an urban orchestra.
The route begins in a very central location under the famous Trinity Arch and takes the audience through the historic college grounds to the Millennium Wing of the National Gallery. Stage Two goes right through the gallery passing priceless art works and out onto Merrion Square West where it crosses into to the tranquility of Merrion Square Gardens for Stage Three. Stage Four progresses from the gate of the gardens on to the Royal Irish Academy of Music on Westland Row. From there, Stage Four passes through the hub-bub of Pearse Train Station and on to the Science Gallery, where it returns on the final stage through the campus to Trinity College Arch.
NCBI Guided Soundwalk offers the audience not only the opportunity to enjoy the rich wealth of sonic experience in the urban environment, but also to appreciate a diversity of perception, ability and creativity.
This event has been devised as part of a long term arts project initiated by Siobhán Clancy in collaboration with Sven Anderson, funded by The Arts Councils Artist in the Community Scheme and managed by Create (the National Development Agency for Collaborative Arts).
For further information and booking please contact Bookings Coordinator Anne Walsh at ncbilistening@gmail.com or telephone 085 153 9150. See also http://theartoflistening.wordpress.com